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sfcrazy writes "Arnold Schwarzenegger returned to movies after his role as Governator of California and the legendary actor is all set to play the role of The Terminator once again — the character which turned him into an icon. Schwarzenegger told the fan site TheArnoldFans.com, 'I'm very happy that the studios want me to be in Terminator 5 and to star as the Terminator.'"

Yeah, I have to admit that it sounds like nothing but a paycheck. Given that the last two Terminator films were pretty forgettable, I'm hoping that they just do a reboot. Wipe everything clean, start with a brand new story, and get a real director (with a real name, not a nickname).

If they do a reboot, they could bring in Arnie in a small role. Make him a military leader responsible for pushing through Skynet, rewarded for his years of service to the country by being the first 3D model used to create a humanoid Terminator. That could work. It would even explain why he's 60-65 years old, yet the Terminator looks half that age. See? It's not hopeless. It's just incredibly unlikely that this will turn into a good film.

I'm hoping that they just do a reboot. Wipe everything clean, start with a brand new story, and get a real director (with a real name, not a nickname).

Why would you wipe one of the most well-known and coolest stories in the whole genre? That would just be asking for trouble. This isn't Superman, Batman, Spiderman, Judge Dredd or Total Recall - i.e. the source material is the movie. Wipe everything clean, and you might as well not even be making a Terminator movie. I hope I never see the day when the first two are remade.
If you must "reboot", "reboot" bad movies that could/should have been good (Daredevil and Resident Evil come immediately to mind).

BULLSHIT. Just because Ellison is sue-happy doesn't make the minor resemblances between his works and the many people he's sued anything more than just coincidental results of writers reusing common sci-fi tropes. If anyone has the right to complain, it's Phillip Dick. Terminator 1, particularly in Reese's flash-forwards, draws way more heavily from "Second Variety" than from anything else (the new Battlestar Galactica did too).

Ellison is, was, and will always be an overrated hack. I would say that he's no

Yeah, I have to admit that it sounds like nothing but a paycheck. Given that the last two Terminator films were pretty forgettable, I'm hoping that they just do a reboot. Wipe everything clean, start with a brand new story, and get a real director (with a real name, not a nickname).

I might have found a script for a concept. It already contains a lot of the elements of successful action / adventure / sci-fi movies. It just needs a bit of polishing such as a rewrite refocusing on Arnold's character and higher production values. Terminator: X25 [youtube.com].

If they do a reboot, they could bring in Arnie in a small role. Make him a military leader responsible for pushing through Skynet, rewarded for his years of service to the country by being the first 3D model used to create a humanoid Terminator. That could work. It would even explain why he's 60-65 years old, yet the Terminator looks half that age.

I was beginning to think I was alone in liking that movie. I thought Christian Bale and Sam Worthington both gave particularly good performances. Bale was a pretty obvious choice to play John Connor in the future, having done such an excellent job playing a similar role in Reign of Fire. So I knew at least that it wasn't completely going to suck when they announced him for the role. And despite my reservations about McG's directing, I must say I was pleasantly surprised by the end result.

Dude did you WATCH Terminator 4? The only way they are gonna save that franchise is to bring Arnie back, Bale was laughable in T4 and I swear in parts it sounded like he was doing his batman voice, it was sooo bad, not even in the "so bad its good" but in the "would rather be at the DMV" level of stink.

I think they did this with Crispin Glover's character in Back To The Future 2, and he sued the studio for using his likeness. I can't find the article right this moment but IIRC Crispin Glover won the suit and now studios can't use an actors likeness without their permission.

Dissatisfied with these plans, Glover filed a lawsuit against the producers, including Steven Spielberg, on the grounds that they neither owned his likeness nor had permission to use it. Due to Glover's lawsuit, there are now clauses in the Screen Actors Guild collective bargaining agreements which state that producers and actors are not allowed to use such methods to reproduce the likeness of other actors.[7]

Hopefully he doesn't fall into the "been here, done that" groove that so many older action hero actors seem to fall into (I'm looking at you, Bruce Willis). It's not exciting to watch. Make it a fresh challenge and put your soul into it.

After watching The Last Stand, Arnold is without a doubt too old. But if they use some Avatar like technology I'm sure they can make him as good as new, we have the technology.

I just really hope they get a good script and some good casting, Terminator 3 was absolutely dreadful, starting with a really bad script to casting Nick Stahl as John Connor. They made his character a simpering emotional wreak and not the great leader of men who would lead mankind to overthrow Skynet. Terminator 4 was moderately bette

All kidding aside, he's pretty aged, I can't really see him faithfully doing the Terminator as he was back in the 80's and 90's. I mean yeah, make-up and CG and all, but even then.

All the big action stars of the 80's that keep on putting out movies, even though they are old as fuck, needs to stop. Serious, it's as bad as watching Mick Jagger dance around for the last decade. There is a time to stop, and it's in your 50's.

Not saying they can't still do movies, they can. But as action stars? No.

We've already had four terminator movies with the last decent one being the 2nd movie. The third was just an excuse to get a female terminator with big boobs killing people, the 4th movie was horrendous, and for crying out loud the tv show Sarah Connor chronicles was better then the movies in some aspects. I mean whats the story going to be this time, they make new T-800's that look like senior citizens to invade the care home where John Connor is in and kill him with false terminator teeth?

I suspect it will have the quality of A Good Day to Die Hard or Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the crystal skull. Unlike WIllis and Ford, Schwazenager does not have a lot fo actually good movies behind him to make up for such a horrible movie.

John Connor discovers that the T-800 series was not originally developed as a war machine at all. In fact, early developments in cybernetics were intended to help an increasingly elderly population cope with geriatric diseases. (In fact, the T in T-800 refers to a testosterone pump implanted directly into the body, the first major modification to be attempted.) One such man, an actor with influential connections in government, was able to steadily have body parts replaced as he aged, attempting to prevent the inevitable degradation of his once Mr. Universe quality body. Later iterations of the T-800 would be based upon this man, who developed the models in an attempt to develop eternally vigilant guards to prevent incursions on his lawn by neighborhood children.

My film-loving internal child still laments his passing on the "Crown of Iron" Conan script. Would have been directed by Millius, the genius behind the original film. Still one of my favorite movies of all time.

Schwarzenegger also told TheArnoldFans, "We start shooting in January and I'm also going to do 'King Conan'. To play that role and also to do another 'Twins' movie. I feel very proud of that. I feel very happy and I'm looking forward to doing those films."

I'm one of the few who actually likes Terminator 3 and somehow, god knows how he was for the most part - pretty damn convincing in the movie. He really didn't appear old in the movie, definitely pulled it off but T3 itself was a decade ago. I saw him in Expendables 2 and,... I mean yeah it was fun and stupid but he was starting to really really look his age. Even his line delivery seemed off.

I for one more than welcome the Governator T1, T2 and T3 were great sci-fi, wonderful time travel paradox films and fantastic examples of the genre. The first 3 films were solid story telling with a solid and consistent POV. Brilliant. Not great, but brilliant. Each movie was a solid 7.5 to 8 out of 10 compared to movies like Fast & Furious or Abrams' Star Trek. T5 is something I would see opening weekend just like i did with the dismal failure of T4 which despite it's name and hype was not a terminato

If he commits to getting back in shape big time, in the same way that Stalone has, he could have another 10 years of action films before he has to actually branch out into parts that fit his age. Yes, it would probably require steroids. No, I don't care.

Unfortunately, they'll probably just use him to draw crowds and either give him glorified cameo's or simply make him look younger with digital effects, neither of which would be a good thing.

If I were him I'd sign with Fox to do McBain [wikia.com] movies. A parody of himself played by himself. I think it could be hilarious, especially given his age. Sort of the "I-won't-ever-retire" cop that's only a shadow of his former glory.

If you want to see something that wasn't ever worth the celluloid it was printed on, you have to see the Hercules in New York [imdb.com] where his voice was dubbed throughout the film and all he did was look er, like a buffoon. [youtube.com]

Hercules in New York may have actually been his first film that I saw.

As a child, I woke up rather early one day, and groggily thought it was a good idea to just go ahead, get up, and start my day...at 3am. So, I hopped down off my bunk and past my younger brother who was still fast asleep, exited our shared bedroom, plopped down in front of the TV, and enjoyed a little Hercules, not knowing at all what it was.

At about 4am, my dad finished up with some work he was doing in his office, and, hearing the TV, w

The only way this would work is as a face-capture-CGI role. He just couldn't pull it off physically. Sorry, but he's just too old and out of shape. Even if you have him bulked up under clothing, his face is too aged to believably do the role.

If I remember right, they were wanting to do a second trio of movies. So with 4 done, we're looking at a possible 5 and 6. I'd like to think that 6 would be the final, with one side or the other finally winning. As for 5, why not go way back in time? Try to kn

Act 1:In Eastern Europe, a handful of partisans still fight SkyNet and an army of robots. It's a desperate fight and the landscape is filled with the wreckage of a former age. One group is led by Ahnuld. He's crafty and careful having lived through the worst of times. His crew look up to him as a father and would follow him into hell.Called before the supreme council, it's Eastern Europe remember, one member of his crew is denounced. It's all a ruse to get him and his group to sign up for a high-risk, end the war in Europe mission. He agrees but not before telling everyone of them 'I'll be back'.Act 2:Getting there is the hardest part. Sneaking through wrecked cities and desolate wastelands, half empty aquifers and collapsed rail tunnels, fighting and dying heroically to preserve the mission and each other, the rag tag group makes its way to... CERN. The idyllic countryside has been devastated. In its place are ruined behemoths and the rusted hulks of war machines. But SkyNet lives here, at least the part aware of the European theatre and they are there to destroy it.Act 3:Is where it really gets good. Also, there's a twist ending. Really, this movie could win awards. That's how good the ending is. Even your Mom is going to like it. I'd tell you, but it would ruin it for you. I'm doing you a favor.

Three was good, not OK. I'd give it a 6.5/10. Probably a whole 1/2 point for the way they tied the whole franchise together. But, I thought the sexbot thing was overdone.

Four was a great look at the SkyNet future; maybe 7/10. I suspect that Bale-fatigue has more to do w/ it's low rating than the film itself. Much in the same way the *excellent* Tom Cruise flick Minority Report suffered from the haters.

I just think it's odd that people would say either of those films suck since by no standard would I gi

He might have aged but he;'s done it well. Makeup can easily make him look just as old as he was in t2.I'm confident that they COULD do a proper salute to Terminator 2 by not making the fifth movie completely crap.He did an amazing job in other movies, Total Recall as an example. He plays his role well, as long as they get a director that knows how to makethe most of him. James Cameron should direct it. It should be a continued story from Terminator 2, ignoring some of the plot devices in the 3rd and 4th one.Like the giant human like robot? Really? Logic would dictate that a design like that would be ineffective at killing comparitively to the resources spent on construction.Give us more of the dark apocalyptic future we saw in Terminator 2. It had the perfect atmosphere, that's what we want to see.

Give us the survival, the moving at night only to reduce detection, run down, living in tunnels metro 2033 styled movie.Do NOT give us the fighting a giant humanoid robot during daylight.During the day, thermal imaging would be less effective but visual optics would easily identify movement.At night, yes, thermal technically would operate better due to higher contrasts in temperatures, but there's ways to mess with that, andblasting infrared light everywhere to see your targets gives away the location of the machine, so that's what I think we expect as viewers, mostly night time, living in tunnels survivalists fighting the machines, just like we saw in terminator 2.